The Scottish Parliament has passed legislation to appoint a âNamed Personâ for every child in Scotland. This is a state official tasked with looking after a childâs âwellbeingâ, that is, their âhappinessâ. The scheme is compulsory. 2  Every child will have a Named Person by law. 3  They will have power to access confidential data on the family, and to talk to a child without their parents agreeing with what they say.
The simplest collapse recodes the 382 languages into four major language groups: Spanish, Other Indo-European languages, Asian and Pacific Island languages, and Other languages. A more detailed collapsing puts the 382 codes into 39 languages and language groups.
A standard for representing characters as integers. Unlike ASCII, which uses 7 bits for each character, Unicode uses 16 bits, which means that it can represent more than 65,000 unique characters. This is a bit of overkill for English and Western-European languages, but it is necessary for some other languages, such as Greek, Chinese and Japanese. Many analysts believe that as the software industry becomes increasingly global, Unicode will eventually supplant ASCII as the standard character coding format.